The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 5
“Rest your brains and do not worry about the wall,” replied the Woodman.
Who acts: Woodman · What happens: rest, not worry, reply · To what, where: brains · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rest | punct |
| 2 | Rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brains | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Rest | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 worry | cc |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 worry | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 worry | advmod |
| 8 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Rest | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 worry | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rest | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rest | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Woodman | det |
| 16 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest in a quote | infinitive | your brains | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brain=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not worry in a quote | infinitive · do-support | about the wall | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about wall=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Woodman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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